Tomorrow looking good though lads. Could be the first 30+kwhr day for me this year. (45KwH if I include the shed)
Production matched forecasting exactly :)
Normally the weather craps on me with the proximity to the Dublin hills to the south, but today.....
Never thought to post here before I’ve been up and running since Feb. My best day so far was the 7th April. 38kwh generated with 21kwh fed to grid.
7.5 kWp (18 x 415w jinko n type) with a 6kw huawei inverter and 10kWh huawei battery. Ground mount panels pointing SE.
Best day of the year for me in Cork today. 19.5kwh from 3.2kwp SE, 0.8 NE, 0.8 W. Used all but 1.5kwh, with 8kwh going to the car.
It's not so much there's no benefit to exporting with "CEG" as opposed to no benefit in exporting if you are on "Deemed export".
CEG is the "Clean export guarantee" where suppliers will pay you for exporting to the grid. All good - but in order to get those payments, you need a "Smart meter" installed which can measure what you are exporting out as a number. Not everyone has those installed yet, so to be fair to people who haven't gotten one, the powers that be came up with a formula (and I can't remember it) which takes the size of your inverter as a parameter and gives you an "estimate" based on that size.
So if you export nothing, or export everything, while you are on deemed export you will get paid regardless. Eventually everyone will move to smart meters and they'll do away with that deemed export, but for now you will get paid regardless of what you export (or not)
29kWh yesterday from 6.7kWp S/E facing here in North West, Already over 31 kWh today with a full battery and tank of hot water , fantastic
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why is there no benefit to exporting with CEG?
Jeeze!!!! That 6kW Solis inverter must have been red hot and whirring all day...I know when I put my 6.1 kWp panels though my 6kW solis inverter you can hear it in the house when at max load 😁
can you send on you load profile would love to see that....
20kWh from 4.5kWp split equally between E/W, consumption was 16kWh, so we exported 9kWh and imported only 2, so happy with that,
55.9kWh generated which is a new record. South facing 10.4kWp with a Solis 6kw hybrid inverter in South Dublin.
Not sure if to be happy or sad 😢
32kwh generated, but a load of Solis 'grid over voltage' events cost me a good chunk of production.
Hopefully if I can get installer back to tweak inverter soon and finish battery install things will improve:
That's 5kw SSW + 3.4W in Co Longford
Glorious day in any case
47.8kWh produced yesterday (April 7th) from a 10.4kW array and a 6kW hybrid inverter. Pointed south in South Dublin.
I managed to use all of it between storage batteries, EV, electric radiator, washing machine and dishwasher.
I have a 2kw electric rad on a smart plug. On the lowest setting it seems to use 1200watts. It's grand to turn on for an hour or two when I'm home but I'd love to set up a lower wattage heater automatically.
Forecast 22.7kWh
Actual 21.6kWh
Close enough :) Exported roughly half of generation.
Good day today. Exported a lot as away from home. Imported about 80 cents of electricity to top up battery overnight, exported about 5 euro worth.. hopefully that's the picture for lots of the next few months
A great couple of days with 31kw yesterday with 29kw today.
I replaced my 3.6kw inverter with a 5kw about 6 weeks ago as I had 4.2kWp of panels and I got it for a good price. Then I had a spare 3.6kw inverter bugging me so I found some second-hand panels to go with it a few days on the extension roof and long story short since last week I now have 6.7kwp on 3 strings SE/SW split. My previous best was 28kw on the original 3.6kWp and that was an outlier. I only got above 25kw a half dozen times in previously so to have 2 this early is great.
44.4 kWh produced today, and most of gone to the feckin' grid for free as I was out most of the day 😬😬 !!!
8.8kWp system, south facing, Kildare area
Had a PHEV charging up (waiting EV arrival) and washing machine/dryers running non stop
Just to give an opinion on a few of the points raised above. Im running 8.4kwp with 6kw inverter and 9.6kwh off the shelf battery. The house is all electric no oil or gas and no ev yet and we are on CEG so no benefit to exporting. When V2G comes along it’ll be a game changer I think.
The battery is expensive but works for me as it balances out the power consumption during the day and allows load shifting in winter which for us is a big winner.
In terms of control I haven’t gone into home assistant yet so use 4 Tapo plugs with oil filled rads I had already as back up to the heatpump if it is down for whatever reason and use this in the colder months to use up excess power produced during the day.
Recently I installed a Wi-Fi controlled water heating spur to run the immersion and send excess into the tank so use up the excess and avoid nighttime heating of water by the heatpump.
It was a pretty cheap low tech way of giving me remote control of heating and using excess power. The maths for an Eddie didn’t work for me with both tubes and a heatpump in place.
For me a battery makes sense and I’d love another 10kwh to give me a bigger resovoir on cloudy days and would mean probably not having to charge the battery even partially on night rate at this time of the year. With CEG currently there’s no benefit to exporting but when that goes that would further change the battery maths. Battery also give you a backup during a power out but again these are few and far between. V2G though would really make a big difference in terms of grid independence and reducing running cost I think.
Apologies for the rambling.
Welcome :)
Great start just curious where did the 24 kWh consumption go to? Would it be typical usage or diverting it?
Welcome to the club. I remember my first installation day. It was end of October and lashing. 1.1Kwhr - and I was chuffed :-)
Tomorrow should be better than today by all accounts too!!
21.9kWh in today. Exported 5.3kWh. 4.5kWp SW facing system in North Co. Dublin.
Shame I couldn't use more of it but mistiming on my part with charging the car up the other day fully meant it was mostly full. The battery got topped up and the immersion connected to the eddi is a top mount only so not great. I did manage to get a clothes wash & dry in and dinner done which is OK I suppose.
First bright day since install of a small mid-terrace system on Tuesday. 13.4kWh off 2.0kW SW/1.2kW NE in Cork, delighted!
34.9 today on a 7.9kWp split E/S in Limerick. Best yet and the day could have been better as there was some rain and cloudy spells☀️
probably one of the best days so far - 17.6kw from 3kw SW and 1kw NE in north Kildare. Not much missing, maybe 20 is possible though.
Thanks, great to finally be able to start posting some numbers. It's been a long wait for the installation, but looks to be well worth it.
Class. Welcome!
Hi everyone
First full day of operation in Co Longford.
5kw SSW + 3.4kw W (awaiting battery to be be fully connected)
27kwh ...not a bad start 🌞
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